Meet the President

President Mr. Stig Enemark

The FIG General Assembly elected at its
meeting in Munich, Germany in October 2006 Prof. Stig Enemark
as FIG
President for a four-year term of office 1.1.2007-31.12.2010

Curriculum Vitae

Prof. Stig Enemark

Date of birth 1 February 1943

Nationality Danish

Status Single - 2 children, Karin 1963 and Jens 1965

Professional Career

Professor Stig Enemark was born 1943 in Copenhagen. He studied
at the Royal Academy of Agriculture in Copenhagen and obtained the degree
of M.Sc. in Surveying, Planning and Land Management in 1966. In 1970 he
was licensed for cadastral surveying and he worked for ten years as a
consultant surveyor in private practice, specializing in cadastral
surveying and land management.

Since 1980 he has been employed at Aalborg University where he is
currently a full Professor in PBL (Problem Based Learning) and Land
Management. For fourteen years (1991-2005) he was Head and Managing
Director of the School of Surveying and Planning.

He was the President of the Danish Association of Chartered Surveyors
(DdL) 2003-2006. In 1984-1994 he was chairman of the professional
committee, and during 1994-2003 he served as Vice-President of the
association being responsible for educational strategies and international
affairs. He is an Honourable Member of DdL.

He has been the Danish delegate to the Council of European Geodetic
Surveyors (CLGE) 1997-2006, and he is an invited Fellow of the Royal
Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), UK.

He has consulted widely to the Danish National Survey and Cadastre
and he played a key role in implementing the Danish Cadastral Reform. He
has also worked as a consultant for the EU and the World Bank especially
in Eastern Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America on the
establishment of appropriate land administration systems and related
issues such as capacity building, education, and training.

He has been active in FIG since 1984 as the Danish national delegate to
Commission 2 (Professional Education). He served as chairman of Commission
2 (1994-1998) and he was chair of the FIG Task Force on Mutual Recognition
of Professional Qualifications (1998-2002). In 1999 he was appointed an
Honorary Member of FIG. He was elected Vice-President of FIG 2005-2006 and
President 2007-2010.

He has more than 300 publications to his credit in the areas of
cadastre, land administration, land management and spatial planning, and
in the areas of professional education and capacity building. He has
presented invited papers at more than 75 international conferences. 2009
is among others author of the book Land Administration for
Sustainable Development. Read more.

The Role of FIG in Contribution to Professional Development and
the Global Agenda. Keynote presentation at the First Conference of
the Fédération des Géomètres Francophones ( FGF), Prague, Czech
Republic, 8-9 October 2009

Global
Trends in Land Administration. Keynote presentation at the 1st
International Symposium of the Arab Union of Surveyors "Towards a
Unique Map for the Arab World", Beirut, Lebanon, 29 June - 1 July
2009

Land Markets and Land Rights in support of the Millennium
Development Goals - A Global Perspective. Presentation at the Land
Market Seminar at the 3rd Land Administration Forum for the Asia and
Pacific Region, Tehran, Iran, 24-26 May 2009

Integrating Land Management, Cadastre and Geodesy.
Keynote presentation at the International Seminar Integrating Land
Management, Cadastre and Geodesy in the CIS countries, Novosibirsk,
Russian Federation, 20 April 2009

Woman´s Access to Land - Developing gender evaluation criteria
for large scale land tools. Presentation at the GLTN Session at the
UN-HABITAT Governing Council Meeting, Nairobi, Kenya, 30 March - 1
April 2009

Land Governance for Sustainable Development. Opening Keynote
Address at the FIG/World Bank Conference "Land Governance in Support
of the MDGs: Facing the New Challenges", Washington DC, USA, 9-10
March 2009

The Land Management Challenge: The Role of the Surveyors in
Support of the Global Agenda. Keynote presentation at the 15th
Biannual Meeting of the Croatian Geodetic Society, Rovinj, Croatia,
22-25 May 2008.

Global Partnership in Land Management. Presentation at
International Conference “Policy meets Land Management: Contribution
to the Achievement of the Millennium Development Goals”, Munich,
Germany, 17-18 April 2008

Underpinning Land Management – A Major Challenge to the Global
Surveying Profession. Keynote presentation at the International
Congress on Geomatics and Surveying Engineering, Valencia, Spain,
18–21 February 2008.

2004

Building Land Information Policies, Keynote paper presented at
the UN, FIG, PC IDEA Special Forum for Building Land Information
Policies in the Americas, the Aguascalientes, Mexico, 26-27 October
2004.

Land
Administration Infrastructures. Keynote paper presented at the
Seventh United Nations Regional Cartographic Conference for the
Americas (UNRCCA) on Spatial Data and Development: Building a
Sustainable Infrastructure. New York, 22 – 26 January 2001.

International Federation of Surveyors, FIG, is a United Nations and World Bank recognized
non-governmental organization of national member associations
and covers the whole range of professional fields within the
global surveying community. It provides an international forum
for discussion and development aiming to promote professional
practice and standards.